Best of luck with that - and I wouldn't hold your breath! As I said, do try to involve your MP, as there are Hotlines MPs can call to chase things up and put pressure on HMRC for faster action.
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i have now received another letter saying that the reason i have to repay the money is because i didn't tell them my award notice was incorrect. they are not reading my letters !! i DID NOT have an award notice between sept 2004 and march 2006( by which time the overpayment had already occurred) i have told them this already !! they refuse to answer any of the questions in my letters.
i have written again to ask them to tell me exactly which award notice they are talking about?
should i phone them? what else can i do? iam hitting my head against a brick wall.
so far i have had 3 different reasons why i should repay. 1. my renewal form was not fully completed 2 oh actually it was fully completed but they needed to clarify some information- (i have recordings of 2 calls where i clarified the info. but 6 monthe later they write to me to ask me again!) 3 i didn't tell them that a non existent award notice was incorrect.
Well if I wer in your position I'd be involving both my MP AND the press - the local paper will do to start with.
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mp is involved he wrote to them and the letter just received was sent to him he then passed it on to me. i haven't had a direct response from them yet.
latest update 1. sent a complaint letter july 15 asking for my child tax credit to be reinstated pending dispute. no reply and no reinstatement! 2.letter i sent on june 14th - still no reply 3. mp was sent a letter on 3 july which he forwarded to me ( not addressed to me of course) i sent another letter to tco about incorrect info in it on 17 july - no reply 4. mp then sent another letter back backing up what i had said and also insisting ctc to be reinstated - no reply and no ctc. so what now? any suggestions please?
"The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed."